Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-08
q cENERAL INTEREST.

aalf was recently Iounu IL
mine in California
The importation of American flour
into the United Kingdom so far TINS
wear has largely exceeded last year 8
receipts.
The first book containing musical
characters was issued in 1895 from the
press of the celebrated ''Wynken de
Worde." o
1t is said that not less than two
million pounds of dried sage leaves are
used annually in the United States 1or =
various purposes.
Mrs. Flora, the wife of a merchant
at Sand Hill. KY. walked up to Tom
Miller a few days ago and filled his
mouth full of dough with her fist
Susan Cooley. of Analomink, Pa,
arose in her sleep. climbed upon ehe
cowcatcher of Philadelphia & Erie
engine, and took .ten-mile ride ae
thirty miles an hour before she awoke..
"A new substitute for cloth or
leather for use in the bookbinding in
dustries is substance made by pre-
pairing fibers of linen, cotton, wool, t.
wood and such materials with sOlu-
said to be absolutely waterproof
An old man dressed in white duck
was selling needles and other articles
in Warren, Pa. the other day. He had
IL wheel-barrow on which was loaded
his stock in trade. He said he had
pushed his paddy carriage all the way
from Ohio and was on his way to New
York City.
The San Francisco AltG boasts that
the voting citizens of that city come =.
from sixty different political divisions
of the world, Egypt being about the
only country not represented. The
American" party certainly stands Il
poor chance in city where there are
23.34S citizens of foreign nationality
and %, 236 born in the United States.
To sharpen razors, says the ELec-
trical RevieO. place in water to which
has been added one-twentieth of its
weight of hydrochloric acid. removing
after one-half hour, wipe and rub upon
hone. The acid acts like MILESTONE
and cOrrodes the whole surface uni
formly. The process never Injuries
good blades, and often improves bad
ones.
At Kirkwood station, N. j., re-
Gently, Frank Besse, colored, twenty
three years old, jumped from the At
lantic City express, which Just then
was making forty-five miles an hour.
He landed squarely on his head in
dry ditch; rolled over. got up and
walked to Camden. "His head was
slightly cut" says an awe-struck re-
porter, land one leg was bruised, but
otherwise he was uninjured.'
At Monticello, Fla, day or two
ago DR.. G. B. Glover extracted from
the back of negro man named Kiah
Hall piece of fe-blade two inches
long which had been placed there four
years ago by colored man named
James Miller. Kiah had not the re-
hottest idea that he was carrying cold
steel in his body. and went to the doc
tor with the idea that boil was devel-
oping. He was mad when he found
that he had been taking care of Jim
Miller's knife-blade for four years.
"A Georgia mule fell into an old
well thirty feet deep. He took his pO-
sition in a sitting posture and was the
uQWllllnH 'mOnaTcn Oh all he sur
veyed' until his excited owner sum-
moned a posse to his aid. A rope was
tied around the body of the mule and
he was drawn to the top of the well.
The rope broke and the mule again
went to the other end of the well. A
second attempt was successful. He j..
leaped to his feet and commenced feed
ing on grass as though nothing had
happened.
-Dooly County can boast of the tall
est man as we'll as the smallest woman .
in Georgia. Sam Cason stands in his
stocking feet seven feet and two inches
and there is room enough for several
more inches. Cason is so slim that he
hardly casts a shadow, but he can get
over ground about as fast as a locOmO-
tive. Mrs. A. Hall has a daughter,
Anna, that was born in 1872; conse-
quently she is fifteen years old, yet is
only thirty inches in height. She goes
about her household duties like little
lady, but. being so small, she is not re-
quired 10 do much. She is about the
smallest woman in the world.